Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Restoring a historic farm. Raising Icelandic sheep, Guinea hogs & Orpington chickens. Trying not to go broke.

Monday, October 20, 2008

A Visit to See Senter

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Yesterday we delivered a sheep down to North Carlina, and made time to stop by my horse trainer's farm on the way back to visit my stall...
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Getting a "Jump" on Breeding Season

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Sheep breeding season starts here at the end of October. I've already planned out all of my breeding groups of which rams are going to ...
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Flying Blind

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A few days ago, I heard a commotion in the kitchen, and went to investigate. As expected, one of our cats had caught something and brought ...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Mystery Lameness---Solved!

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Not too long ago, I learned a painful-but-funny lesson about the importance of observing ALL the clues and symptoms and not jumping to concl...
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The Ram Who Would Be King

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Ever since we've had our sheep flock, our senior ram Nicholai has been the benevolent King of the Flock. He briefly trounces any newcome...
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Farm Lambs

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In addition to buying the 9 new ewes from Monica, I also kept 10 of my own farm ewe lambs, and 3 ram lambs from this spring. You may remembe...
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New Sheep!

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While I've been steadily dispersing my horse herd for the past year, I've been increasing my sheep flock. When I heard that my frien...

The Great Un-Trade

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Remember back in February when I was so heartbroken because I was trading my two favorite pregnant mares, Char and Scylla, to a farm in nort...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Horse Update

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So, a lot has happened with the horses over the summer. Here's a summary: Penny: After trying to sell my filly Penny, and getting almos...

Did You Miss Me?

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Hi everybody! Is anyone out there still reading this? I can't believe it's been more than 2 months since I last posted. I imagine...
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Nancy Chase
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
Shepherd, Farmer, Artist, Writer.
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